FTC v. Meta: the antitrust battle over Instagram and WhatsApp
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Meta slams FTC’s ‘grab bag’ case as ‘at war with the facts, and at war with the law.’
Meta’s attorney Mark Hansen paints the government’s case as one comprised of made-up theories about how both the social media market and the law work. He accuses the government of ignoring TikTok’s massive role in social media by excluding it from its definition of the market that Meta allegedly monopolized.
He’s also dismissive of the idea that Meta users pay for the services by consuming ads, saying they can just scroll past them.
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